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Pontius Pilate
As any christian, every Sunday we all attend church to show our faith and worship the lord. Very familiar as a person of faith we always say, “for our sake he Jesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died and was buried.” They immediately began to question how Jesus died, and how they were going to find out who killed him. In fact, one of the biggest clues they had was the way he died. Which was by crucifixion, at the time was a Roman punishment inflicted most of the time on slaves and revolutionaries. As we have seen many times in church, crucifixion was a terrible cruel and very public way to be put to death. The romans did a public executions just like the Jewish mode so that they can shame the one dying and let others know they should fear so they don’t make the same mistake. …show more content…
Roman governor at the time was Pontius Pilate, he was the one who put jesus to death. Jesus was put to death because you can not try to over step the Romans. Not one person should challenge the Romans, Jesus more than likely was charged with Jesus claimed to be the Jewish royal messiah. Sadly, his followers could have started that rumor and getting back to the Romans you can only imagine they weren’t happy. That right there would get you crucified by the

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